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Big Timber · Himsa

Big Timber · Himsa
EXERCISE 2 OF 54
Groove M -- Part M
28 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
PART AB
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJMIV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Timber on drums

157 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-12, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7 and 11-12, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Big Timber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, I -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-45 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Big Timber?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Big Timber hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Big Timber?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED